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# 45 U.S.C. § 162 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for expenditure by the Mediation Board in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.

(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, § 12, 44 Stat. 587; June 21, 1934, ch. 691, § 7, 48 Stat. 1197.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments1934—Act June 21, 1934, substituted “Mediation Board” for “Board of Mediation”.